River's Fog

Holy cow its been a year since we dropped our last episode after dropping an episode almost weekly for a year after our hosted nonprofit organization, What Matters Most Evansville was founded in early 2020. 

Founder, Andrea, took what was thought to be a few week hiatus from the nonprofit and this podcast which turned into months and felt it in her bones she couldn't go a year, for many reasons.

We need help with editing because we are still sitting on 6 interviews to be dropped and we've got some additional content to share including some awesome ripples in the water some of our former guests have been making since interviewed! 

Editing is one of the many things we hope to fundraise for because we hope to continue dropping an episode at least monthly with the goal of them becoming more interactive where people can call/write in.

Our Share Your Grief Story Anonymously project has continued to receive letters and we want to share them.

Lets connect and collaborate so Evansville can be a place more people can live well and die well because we can grieve well, all the losses. WMME has been approached by a few organizations to consider partnering to best meet individual needs. 

Jaimie speaks to reaching across, not down to support people in the community and across the globe. She shares her journey quitting her high paying physical therapist job in California to becoming the founder and CEO of a nonprofit, The JD Sheth Foundation.  After visiting her mother's homeland in India she was inspired to help allocate resources and build infrastructure to support more people living healthier lives. Her foundation is dedicated to focusing on the education, health, and well being of others, specifically children and the elderly, here in the United States and across the globe.  She speaks to moving back to Evansville to be with her family just before the pandemic to help care for her terminally ill mother and how her parents' compassion and kindness fueled this amazing organization. 

Be sure to like, follow and support her work as she strives to create hope and security for people in the midst of grief and loss. 

www.jdshethfoundation.org              facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jdshethfoundation         IG @ https://www.instagram.com/jdshethf/

Golf Scramble- Swinging FORE Sheth! August 24th at Cambridge Golf Course in Evansville, IN. Lunch at 12pm & Tee off at 1pm.  Funds will go to support their projects!

Stay tuned for several upcoming local projects including but not limited to supporting local female veterans, ECHO housing, Methodist Youth Home and also supporting other local nonprofit organizations too!

They partner with International Development Enterprises (iDE) to help them fund a water hauling truck to continue their work in bringing clean water to the residents of northern Ghana. The Water Master truck will deliver water to iDE’s multiple hand washing stations located throughout several cities and will also begin delivering water to homes.  iDE established their social enterprise, Sama Sama, in 2016, which has become the leading supplier of high quality water, sanitation, and hygiene products and services in Ghana.  The expected completion date for this project is late 2021 and we are currently accepting donations to help support it.

John Byers was sentenced to prison in his 20s for essentially the rest of his life for drug conspiracy after dropping out of college to sell cocaine. He had never drank or done drugs, yet was the first federal trail in Indiana in 1998. He speaks to his journey that "your desire to grow must be larger than your obstacles" and “keep working and never give up.”  He shares his journey before, during, and after his time in prison which surprisingly ended early. This includes spiritual and cultural experiences being Muslim, love for money, angered grief to transformative knowledge and patience. After being released early he went to hair school to pass time, but now loves being a hair stylist!

To learn more and follow his art and inspiration: 

https://www.facebook.com/wisdom.byers.5 

https://www.instagram.com/johndouglasbyers/

Fei Wu joins us from the Boston area and shares her own grief journey (and inspiration) from being an immigrant from Beijing, China at 17 years old, the death of her father, racism, and starting her own business. She is now the creator of Feisworld Media with a mission to help small businesses and creative entrepreneurs as a YouTuber, Podcaster, content creator, maker of Docuseries, and leads an international mastermind group! She is a big advocate for palliative care she wish her father had.  In addition to this, she encourages people to think about their death, the kind of impact they want to have while alive, and speaks to  “don’t waste this pain”…

If interested in connecting with her and getting guidance to build your own creative career and live your creative and financial freedom:

Website: https://www.feisworld.com/

Get her YouTuber Kit: https://www.youtuberkit.com/

Podcast: https://www.feisworld.com/podcast

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feiwu/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feisworld

Twitter: https://twitter.com/feisworld

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feisworld/

Be sure to check out her mom’s website to see her beautiful watercolor art! https://www.xiangliart.com/

Chuck and Ashley Elliott speak to “I’m grieving because I loved”. They are a married couple who get raw about their journey coping with several miscarriages. We laugh, tear and acknowledge heartaches, anger and their own unique frustrations yet also get to hear amazing growth and great relationship and communication skills while coping with their grief! This all inspired creating what they themselves needed while grieving. 

Chuck and Ashley are now the owners of: Elliot Life Coaching, specializing in grief and relationships.  They offer online courses: Do Hard Things; Why People Leave; and Love and Loss. They also offer coaching and speaking at events.

Website: https://www.elliottlifecoaching.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chuckandashley/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckandashleycoaching/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK9vzRS0OA3Kim5wYxhn5KQ

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshleyChuckand

Michele Gates is a courageous woman and now author of an interactive children's book for kids coping with a difficult change or loss in their life.  She shares with us her story of loosing her mother to suicide at the age of 5 and how her healing and growth transformation didn't happen until she did the grief work in her 40s which has created not only her healing, more inspiration for others, but also her book! Stay tuned for more to come as she develops Mae's Way Foundation and writing another book.    

Email: [email protected]       Instagram: @michelelgates     Facebook: Michele Gates

Purchase at:  https://www.amazon.com/Mae-Courageous-Caterpillar-Michele-Gates/dp/0578653079/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mae+the+courageous+caterpillar&qid=1618361940&sprefix=mae+the+c&sr=8-1

Former respiratory therapist and Mary Kay saleswoman turned life coach. She speaks to her journey, ambiguous grief, the importance of acknowledging your grief and taking actionable steps to become your true self. 

To learn more about her work be sure to check out: https://amilloyd.com/wordpress/about-ami/

Contact info if you or someone you know should be a guest on our podcast: [email protected] OR contact us on facebook @WMMEVV 

Don't forget about our Share Your Grief Story, Anonymously project. You can mail in to WMME, PO Box 112, Elberfeld, IN 47613 Contact us or see our facebook page for further details. 

Adam Hayden is a philosopher, writer, advocate, and organizer for the brain tumor community. We met through LinkedIn when I reached out after listened to him speaking at the End Well Project Conference. He shares being diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2016 in his early 30s while just becoming a new father. He has outlived over 90% of people with this diagnosis. He has a beautiful sense of humor you will hear t which includes celebrating every year he has survived after his brain surgery known as a craniotomy- they eat a cake that looks like a brain! He speaks with us about and writes wonderful articles about “I’m not dead, and that’s weird." We are honored to hear parts of his grief journey and the importance of having difficult conversations while roles change, coping with medical providers trying their best, friends not knowing what to say and talking to your children about terminal illness. 

Whatever your personal beliefs are- please send prayers and positive energy northbound to this wonderful man who is preparing for another scan in April. Also- help us hook him up with a publisher for his book he wants to publish before he dies! If you know how to help contact us at [email protected] or call 812-389-0182

Adam's website: https://glioblastology.com 

Social Media: #AandWTumorTakedown

Wife’s website: http://www.faithhopeandwine.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haydenadam/

EndWell Conference: https://endwellproject.org/living-while-dying-a-contingency-plan/

Author & Physician he speaks about: That Good Night, by Sunita Puri, https://sunitapuri.com/

Netflix series mentioned:  Lenox Hill: https://www.netflix.com/title/80201728  The Surgeon’s Cut: https://www.netflix.com/title/81004466and After Life: https://www.netflix.com/title/80998491

Casey McCoy is a man who values relationships, with everything he encounters from people, knowledge, food and his environment. Casey has continued making ripples in the water after various types of grief losses, striving for personal growth and development as he himself continues to shrink, yet grow at the same time, literally and figuratively. His curiosity and desire to strengthen his ability to embrace changes and reframe how he is choosing to spend his time, energy and resources. This includes but is not limited to how he went from escaping foreclosure by floating down the river on a flat boat dressed up like Abraham Lincoln to now buying a house in Belize, going from military boot camp to becoming almost 400 lb, and from taking a job driving an icecream van to now running Team McCoy with Keller Williams Reality!

HOW TO GET IN CONTACT WITH CASEY- INCLUDING BUYING AND SELLING HOMES!: Keller Williams- Team McCoy, 812-760-6576, [email protected]   https://www.facebook.com/caseysellshomes https://twitter.com/caseysellshomes https://www.linkedin.com/in/evansvillehomes/ https://www.pinterest.com/evansvillehomes/_saved/ https://kw.com/download/KW2NLFDZJ?_branch_match_id=812064499580594343

BOOKS REFERENCED:  The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results;

Blackbelt of the Mind by Fred Grosse

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS:

Personality: https://www.themyersbriggs.com/en-US/Products-and-Services/Myers-Briggs

Enneagram: https://assessment.yourenneagramcoach.com/

Love language: https://www.5lovelanguages.com/5-love-languages/

Disc: https://www.discprofile.com/what-is-disc/

Attachment style: https://www.attachmentproject.com/attachment-style-quiz/

Lynn Miller Pease has a passion for diversity, servant leadership, and the collaborative process.  She shares with us how various life transitions, times of grief and accidental leadership lead her to the current position as the Chief Executive Officer of Leadership Everyone, Inc., based out of Evansville, Indiana. She develops servant leaders to transform communities with the support of her board of directors, staff, alumni, and volunteers. She has more than 20 years of experience in facilitation, leadership development, civic engagement, and visioning for strategic action. 

Be sure to check out more info on their website: https://leadershipeveryone.org/ Email: [email protected] Office: (812) 425-3828 x1

26th Annual Celebration of Leadership (COL) will be on March 18th at 7pm CST on television station WNIN 9.1, or live stream on Facebook & YouTube; *re-airs on WNIN 3/21 at 5:30pm. COL is a remarkably diverse and inclusive annual event whereby Leadership Everyone publicly seeks out and honors individuals, projects or organizations who make significant, collaborative contributions that improve and transform our community. Celebration of Leadership recognizes examples of outstanding community and public service in the following categories: Arts; Community & Neighborhood; Education; Government, Public Service, & Environment; and Health & Social Services.

Donate: https://leadershipeveryone.org/donations/